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Re: Starium (was Re: article: german secure phone)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian BROWN)
Mon Jun 11 11:54:46 2001
To: John Kelsey <kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: Crypto List <cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jun 2001 04:03:10 EDT." <4.1.20010606034256.020b0770@pop.ix.netcom.com>
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Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:41:19 +0100
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From: Ian BROWN <I.Brown@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
I think to some extent, the next-generation mobile standards (UMTS/3GPP) will
do this automatically... GSM currently encrypts the air interface between
phone and base station; 3GPP pushes this much further back into the network
(all the way back to a device in the user's home network, I think).
Unfortunately I don't think two 3GPP phones talking to each other will do
end-to-end -- saves the phone companies having to implement MITM or escrow
functionality for law enforcement interfaces :(
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